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neuroscience

Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs

Technology

Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs

Even after losing a limb, brain activity associated with imagined movements can be read by an fMRI brain scanner and used to control a computer character

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Pieces of cabbage

Health

Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts

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Man with coloroured lines superimposed on his face

Humans

Photos of human faces reassembled from monkeys’ brain signals

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neuroscience

Humans

Your Brain Is a Time Machine: Why we need to talk about time

Culture

A classroom in Uttar Pradesh

Health

Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months

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Tired man in bed, rubbing his eye, trying to sleep

Humans

The brain starts to eat itself after chronic sleep deprivation

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Rainbow light passing through brain scan

Technology

Does mind-hack tech mean your brain needs its own legal rights?

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orange room

Humans

Deviate attempts to alter the way we perceive the world

Culture

Crayfish with one upside down on tank floor

Life

Drunken crayfish show that loneliness raises alcohol tolerance

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Live performance of Sleep album

Technology

Start-up uses biometrics to tailor music for good night’s sleep

Trouble kipping? Boston-based Sync Project is collecting heart-rate data from music lovers to see if it can tweak tracks for better relaxation

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Technology

Our ability to think in a random way peaks at 25 then declines

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Life

Entire nervous system of an animal recorded for the first time

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Health

Destroying a type of brain cell makes mice really chilled out

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Earth

Changing clocks twice a year is bad for health and energy use

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